The Saturday Evening Post

CHANGING ATTITUDES, CHANGING LIVES

Originally published September 22, 1962

Forty-three years ago this month in Brookline, Massachusetts, my mother and father were looking forward with great anticipation and joy to the birth of their third child.

Rosemary was born September 13 at home — a normal delivery. She was a beautiful child, resembling my

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